[excerpt from article about a restaurant owner ]
Former Falmouth Restaurant Owner Pens Memoir
Posted: Friday, October 9, 2015 12:00 am Cape News
http://www.capenews.net/arts_and_ent...5af9f7edc.html
By JOANNE BRIANA-GARTNER
Don McKeag, former Falmouth resident and one-time owner of the Flying Bridge Restaurant on Falmouth Harbor, has written a memoir of his colorful life and the people he’s encountered along the way. Mr. McKeag will be at the Flying Bridge Friday, October 9, from 3 to 6 PM to sign copies of “Well At Least I Owned a Rolls Royce” and to chat with former patrons and friends who frequented the Flying Bridge in the 1980s when Mr. McKeag was at its helm.
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Although he mingled with hollywood and political elite, Mr. McKeag was not one to cater to the whims of the rich and famous. One chapter has him refusing to ask Flying Bridge customers to leave at the request of
Stevie Nicks and her entourage who wanted the entire restaurant to themselves, and adding a few choice words about Ms. Nicks’s musical talent in front of a patron who turned out to be musician James Taylor.
About Ted Kennedy, Mr. McKeag said that although “we didn’t always agree politically, I loved him. He was so kind and fun. He hated snobbery.”